T. S. Eliot Quotes
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, must be banned.
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The technical process which is interesting in it’s own right but I think the creative process is what’s more intriguing to me.
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
